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Announcing NuFact2012 inWilliamsburg, Virginia, USA
July 23-28, 2012
Jointly hosted by The College of William & Mary
and Jefferson Lab
Williamsburg, Virginia
• A tourist destination for American history – Williamsburg was the capitol of Virginia at the time of the
American Revolution– The center of the town is now a living history park & archeological
site with most buildings restored to 1700s appearance• Also in the area
– Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America
– The Yorktown battlefield(last battle in Rev. War)
www.history.org
William & Mary
est. 1693
Alumni include Thomas Jefferson (Author of the United States
Declaration of Independence, 3rd American President)
Wren Hall – original campus main hall
William Small Physical Laboratory
• Physics department has 16 faculty in hadronic, particle & high energy physics (+14 others)
• 4 in neutrino experiment• Ph.D. program accepting ~14
students per year
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab)
A nuclear physics research facility pursuing studies of
• Structure of the nucleus
• Intermediate energy QCD
• Tests of the Standard Model and beyond
A good time to visit Jlab• CEBAF - a superconducting
recirculating Linac (1.5 GHz)• Starting upgrade from 6 GeV to 12 GeV
in May 2012
• A day including tours inside enclosures & halls
• Also a free electron laser(energy recovery linac)
New Hall
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